Teva, a pharmaceutical company that started in Israel and went global, is collapsing and threatening to cut thousands of jobs here and abroad. Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, is attempting to intervene in this decision to save the plants in…
Tag: globalization
You want a welfare state? It’s not about nostalgia, it’s about class struggle
A review of The Rise and Fall of the Welfare State by Asbjorn Wahl. Pluto Press, 2011. Since the hot summer of protests in Israel everyone here has been talking about the Welfare State, Scandinavian style. The Rise and Fall of the Welfare…
Post Zionist Israel: The Rules Have Changed
Adapted from a paper discussed at the annual seminar of the Organization for Democratic Action, October 2007 DURING the past thirty years, but especially in the last decade, Israel has undergone major economic change. Ownership of the economy has shifted…
Flexible, All Too Flexible
AS CHANGE SWEEPS through global job markets, a debate is underway about the effect on workers. Are they benefiting? Or is work becoming less secure, with lower wages and the loss of hard-won rights? At the heart of the debate…